Excessive Pruning Levels in Young Grapevines (<i>Vitis vinifera</i>L. cv. Sultan 7) Cause Water Loss in Seedless Cluster Berries

Phenology, Canopy Aging and Seasonal Carbon Balance as Related to Delayed Winter Pruning of Vitis vinifera L. cv. Sangiovese Grapevines

Manipulating or shifting annual grapevine growing cycle to offset limitations imposed by global warming is a must today, and delayed winter pruning is a tool to achieve it. However, no information is available about its physiological background, especially in relation to modifications in canopy phenology, demography and seasonal carbon budget. Mechanistic hypothesis underlying this work was tha...

Excessive weight loss in athletes.

Because increasing numbers of young people are nowadays seriously committed to highly competitive sports programmes and as many coaches and athletes are aware of the advantages of reducing fatness for optimal performance in most sports there are risks that excessive voluntary weight reduction may ensue. The urge to minimise body fat may indeed lead to a pathological degree of food and fatness a...

Excessive Attenuation of Measles Virus as a Possible Cause of Failure in Measles Immunization

Effects of Exogenous Gibberellic Acid on Yield Components of ‘Askari’ Grape

Abstract The most important commercial use of gibberellin in horticulture is to improve the yield and marketability of table grapes. This experiment was conducted in order to evaluate the effect of different concentrations of gibberellic acid on yield components of five-year-old ʻAskariʼ seedless grapevines, based on a randomized complete block design. Gibberellic acid was sprayed on the folia...

Pruning nearest neighbor cluster trees

Nearest neighbor (k-NN) graphs are widely used in machine learning and data mining applications, and our aim is to better understand what they reveal about the cluster structure of the unknown underlying distribution of points. Moreover, is it possible to identify spurious structures that might arise due to sampling variability? Our first contribution is a statistical analysis that reveals how ...